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For some reason, several pages on this very wiki have [[LinkingToAnArticleWithinTheArticle links to themselves]]. Occasionally the ''very first words'' on a work's page.\\\

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For some reason, several pages on this very wiki have [[LinkingToAnArticleWithinTheArticle [[Administrivia/LinkingToAnArticleWithinTheArticle links to themselves]]. Occasionally the ''very first words'' on a work's page.\\\

** If a certain show/video game/comic/etc. has its own Wall Banger or DMOS page, odds are an image of one of the characters facepalming will be the page image.

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** If Previously in the wiki's history, if a certain show/video game/comic/etc. has had its own Wall Banger or DMOS page, odds are were an image of one of the characters facepalming will would be the page image.image. Due to the Wall Banger pages being cut and the images on the [=DMOS=] pages being removed due to [[Administrivia/JustAFaceAndACaption lack of informativity]], this is no longer present.

* PostModern: Plenty of examples. Since the site is a catalog of devices used in fiction, the whole site is this.** Anytime you see a '''Meta Example''', it's Post Modern. Especially if it's on the Post Modern page. Whoa. [[MindScrew Trippy.]] Further complicating matters is that if you deny that your Post Modern statement is itself Post Modern, you've simply made it even more Post Modern. In particular this makes it very tricky to parody as any sufficiently involved parody of Post Modernism is, in itself, a Post Modern comment on itself. [[StupidSexyFlanders No]] PoMo.[[note]][[FootnoteFever "Not that I'm postmodern or anything."]][[/note]]** [[http://www.salient.org.nz/features/tv-tropes-will-ruin-your-life This article]] blames [=Post Modernism=] as one of the reasons why TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, since the style of this wiki references fictions one after the other, and dissolves the boundaries between fiction and RealLife. Besides the [[Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability lack of notability]], the relentless [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself self-referencing]] of [[WikiWalk massively]] [[AllBlueEntry interlinked]] [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife trope definitions]] with {{pothole}}s {{parody}}ing the [[SnarkBait purpose of every article]] and [[invoked]][[MemeticMutation turning trope names]] into FanSpeak (along with the [[TheInternet medium of hypertext]] and the concept of a wiki itself) is also a [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible very postmodern concept]].

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* PostModern: PostModernism: Plenty of examples. Since the site is a catalog of devices used in fiction, the whole site is this.** Anytime you see a '''Meta Example''', it's Post Modern. Post-Modern. Especially if it's on the Post Modern Post-Modernism page. Whoa. [[MindScrew Trippy.]] Further complicating matters is that if you deny that your Post Modern Post-Modern statement is itself Post Modern, Post-Modern, you've simply made it even more Post Modern. Post-Modern. In particular this makes it very tricky to parody as any sufficiently involved parody of Post Modernism Post-Modernism is, in itself, a Post Modern Post-Modern comment on itself. [[StupidSexyFlanders No]] PoMo.[=PoMo=].[[note]][[FootnoteFever "Not that I'm postmodern or anything."]][[/note]]** [[http://www.salient.org.nz/features/tv-tropes-will-ruin-your-life This article]] blames [=Post Modernism=] Post-Modernism as one of the reasons why TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, since the style of this wiki references fictions one after the other, and dissolves the boundaries between fiction and RealLife. Besides the [[Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability lack of notability]], the relentless [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself self-referencing]] of [[WikiWalk massively]] [[AllBlueEntry interlinked]] [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife trope definitions]] with {{pothole}}s {{parody}}ing the [[SnarkBait purpose of every article]] and [[invoked]][[MemeticMutation turning trope names]] into FanSpeak (along with the [[TheInternet medium of hypertext]] and the concept of a wiki itself) is also a [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible very postmodern post-modern concept]].

* AmbiguousSyntax: The wiki itself has a few, many of which are chronicled in "IThoughtItMeant..." For example, a SerialKillerKiller: A killer of serial killers, or a serial killer of killers? ([[TakeAThirdOption Both, more often than not]]).** Wouldn't a serial killer of killers be a Serial Killer-Killer?

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* AmbiguousSyntax: AmbiguousSyntax:** The wiki itself has a few, many of which are chronicled in "IThoughtItMeant..." For example, a SerialKillerKiller: A killer of serial killers, or a serial killer of killers? ([[TakeAThirdOption Both, more often than not]]).** Wouldn't a serial killer of killers be a Serial Killer-Killer?not]]).

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